Word: typist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...office composing machine, which operates like a typewriter but can take a sheet 20 feet wide, has been developed by the Ralph C. Coxhead Corp. to enable a typist to letter engineering drawings and tracings. By reducing to one-tenth the time required for lettering, it cuts down drafting-room time more than one half, solves a bottleneck in war production...
Largest numbers of individual jobs in any field were 891 typist positions and 328 entertainer positions. Largest earnings of any one group went to 214 waiters of whom 67 worked in the Freshman Dining Hall...
Then Grover Jones became a typist at Paramount. "I found out that the most charming thing about a studio was that little ethereal something that I can't define, that thing of being in that department where you didn't know what it was all about. And so I turned my attention to writing. I tried to write a great many things, and they were all flops. I even sat and wrote a comic history of the U. S. I don't know how many thousand words I wrote, which was proof I didn't know...
Divorced. John J. Raskob Jr., 33, son of the former Democratic National Chair man ; from Minerva Aaronson Raskob, 29, former New Haven typist whom he mar ried while at Yale; after nine and a half years of marriage; in Reno...